Trigger a square pulse of programmatic width and amplitude in Simulink

Trigger a pulse with a zero or 1 (rather than a designated time) in Simulink
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Updated 14 Dec 2012

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I needed to trigger a square wave pulse using a signal within my Simulink model (in my case it was a position vector). All I could find within the Sim Library was pulses set to activate at a certain time (by using a delay or building a signal from scratch). So I baked one myself.

The biggest problem was the inability to "reset" the clock (I wanted to use it as a timer to set the width of my pulse). As a substitution for the clock timer, I compare the output of pulse_amplitude => integrator block with the value = pulse_amplitude*pulse_width.

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Jared Goodner (2026). Trigger a square pulse of programmatic width and amplitude in Simulink (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/39464-trigger-a-square-pulse-of-programmatic-width-and-amplitude-in-simulink), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2010a
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1.0.0.0